From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:34:22 -0800
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/13] arm: Fix mutual exclusion in arch_gettimeoffset
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:12:39PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> Implementations of arch_gettimeoffset are generally not re-entrant
> and assume that interrupts have been disabled. Unfortunately this
> pre-condition got broken in v2.6.32.
> 
> Fixes: 5cfc8ee0bb51 ("ARM: convert arm to arch_gettimeoffset()")
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>

This looks like a sensible fix for -stable backporting.  But with m68k
converted over it might be time for these two arm platforms to either
be converted to the clocksource API or to be dropped..